USA > New York > Erie County > Sardinia > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 30
USA > New York > Erie County > Collins > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 30
USA > New York > Erie County > Concord > History of the original town of Concord : being the present towns of Concord, Collins, N. Collins, and Sardinia, Erie County, New York > Part 30
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He had four children :
Fidelia married Stephen Conger and lives in North Collins. Samuel W., lives in Rochester, Minn., and has been Judge of the Probate Court in that county.
Dewitt died when a young man, and Horace, whose where- abouts are unknown.
William L. Emerson.
William L. Emerson was born Feb. 16, 1809. His father, William Emerson, was born in New Ipswich, Hillsborough county, N. H. He served as a soldier at Plattsburg in the war of 1812 and '15. His mother, Lydia Pratt, was born in New Hampshire. His grandfather's name was James Emerson. He came from England and served as a soldier in the Revolution- ary war. His grandmother's maiden name was Lydia Walker, born in New Hampshire. William L. Emerson was married to Maria Chase Feb. 17, 1835. She was born in Dummerston, Vt., July 12, 1809. Her father's name was James A. Chase ; he was born in Guilford, Vt., June 11, 1786. Her grandfather, James Chase, was born in Warren, R. I., Nov. 10, 1751, and served as a soldier in the Revolution. William L. Emerson came from Vermont to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, in 1842, and bought of Jeremiah Wilcox, a farm adjoining the Sher- man place. In 1850, he bought the Searls place or David Goodemote place in the north part of Ashford near the Cat- taraugus creek. In 1868, he sold out in Ashford and removed to Concord. He has always been a farmer and has followed the business successfully. Mrs. Emerson died July 18, 1879.
Their children arc :
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William F., born April 14, 1836; married July 4, 1856, Maryette Wiley ; second wife, Sarah Crawford ; lives in Ash- ford and is a farmer.
Edward, born Aug. 3, 1831 ; married Ellen M. Carman, Aug. 27, 1871 ; lives in Sardinia and is a farmer.
Hiram, born May 22, 1840; married Louisa M. Reynolds, Sept. 21, 1864; second wife, Laura Wells; third wife, Alice D. Marsh ; lives in Concord and is a farmer.
Mary E., born April 14, 1842, lives in Springville.
Sylvia A., born Sept. 15, 1845 ; married Levi M. Bond, Sept. 17, 1863 ; lives in Porterville, Cal.
Clara J., born March 24, 1841 ; married Origen A. Wilcox, Aug. 23, 1860 ; lives in Porterville, Cal.
Arnold J., born Feb. 4, 1851 ; married Julia P. Carman, June IO, 1879 : lives in Sardinia and is a hardware merchant.
Amos P. Ellis.
Mr. Ellis was born in Tioga county, N. Y., in August, 1814. In 1835 he came from his native place to Gowanda and worked one year at his trade (carpenter and joiner). He then came to Concord, where he has since resided. For the last twenty-five years his occupation has been farming. He was married in 1837 to Betsey Curran, who was born Nov. 4, 1808.
They have had five children :
Louisa, born Feb. 5, 1839: married George Priel in 1867.
Elizabeth, born June 30, 1840 ; died Jan. 13, 1858.
Eugene P., born April 2, 1842; married Lizzie Bassett in 1864 ; was killed April 2, 1881, in a railroad tunnel at St. Louis.
Edwin (twin), born April 15, 1844,married Irene Wheelock in 1865.
Edward (twin), born April 15, 1844.
Augustus G. Elliott.
Augustus G. Elliott was an early settler, and had a store on the Weismantel lot near the race ; he also at one time managed a distillery and ashery : the ashery stood on the north side of Franklin street, on Stephen Smith's lot, and the distillery stood on the opposite side of the street ; he also bought cattle and drove them to the eastern markets ; he took an active part also
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in building the Springville Academy. He was born in Kent, Conn., Oct. 20, 1778, and died Aug. 26, 1834, aged fifty-six years.
Charles Emerling.
Charles Emerling was born July 31, 1846, in the town of Eden, Erie county. N. Y .; came to Concord in the year 1858. His father's name was Philip Emerling ; his mother's maiden name was Marian Lamm; he was married May 15, 1877, to Mary Ann Belcher ; he owns the farm of 220 acres where he lives. He has two daughters :
Caroline, born Feb. 14, 1879.
Sarah, born July 27, 1881.
Jesse Frye.
Eben Frye, the father of the subject of this sketch, was of Welsh ancestry, his father coming here at an early day, and settled in what was then known as the Province of Maine. Eben Frye took an active part in the struggle for American independence from the beginning to the close, serving as a Captain, and was also promoted to the rank of a Major. After peace was declared he also represented the Province of Maine in the legislature when it was a dependency of Massachusetts.
Jesse Frye, the subject of this sketch, was born at Fryeburg, Maine, in the year 1772. Some time in the year 1780 his father moved to Andover, N. H., where he died four years after. Jesse, then twelve years old, was apprenticed to a clothier and learned this trade, but he did not follow the call- ing long. In 1794 he moved with his mother's family from Andover to Bath, in the same State, and engaged in the manu- facture of brick with a man by the name of Haddock. In 1797 he was married to Betsey Noyes. Six children were born to this union, viz .:
Enoch Noyes, born March 30, 1800.
James Sanders, born June 10, 1802. Moses McKinster, born Sept. 26, 1804. Betsey, born Jan. 4, 1807. Sarah, born December, 1809. Jesse, born Feb. 18, 1818.
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Of these children three are living, Enoch, Moses and Jesse. Here he remained in business with Haddock until the year 1810, when he was compelled to sacrifice his business to satisfy an obligation incurred by lending his name to a friend. This left him but a meagre sum to start out again in life, but he was young and full of energy. The Holland Purchase was attract- ing much attention, and flattering inducements were offered to settlers. He purchased a span of horses and fitted up a lum- ber wagon : into this he placed his family, consisting of a wife and five children, and all the worldly goods he possessed, and set out for the new Mecca, where he arrived some time in the Fall of 1810. Buffalo was his first stopping place. Here he began business as a green-grocer, occupying a lot and house right where Pratt & Letchworth's immense retail trade in the hardware business on the terrace is carried on to-day. He owned a sail-boat and the most of his stock in trade was pro- cured in Canada, and much of his profit came from the Indians, who were at that time largely in the ascendant. Here he remained until the Spring of 1812, although he had traded his house and lot the Fall previous to John Polley for an articled claim of lots thirty and thirty-one, in Zoar. In July, the same year, he moved his family to Zoar, having previously built a log house for their reception. Here he remained some four years, when this claim was traded off to Luther Pratt for a similar one on " Poverty Hill," in the Town of Collins. The soil did not suit him, and this claim was sold to Phineas Orr, and he made another and his last claim, that of Frye Hill.
In August, 1816, Enoch and Mack, then boys of twelve and sixteen, began chopping just north of the great orchard ; some four acres were cleared and got into winter wheat that Fall ; the yield was abundant, and ever since that time until the pres- ent Frye Hill has dispensed that old-fashioned, open-hearted hospitality that was proverbial among the early pioneers. They lived to a ripe age, the wife dying Feb. 4, 1848, aged seventy- six years, one month and twenty-one days; he surviving her but a few months, and followed her March 27, 1849, aged seventy-five years, four months and twelve days. They lie buried side by side in the family burying-ground on Frye Hill.
Enoch N. Frye, now over eighty-three years old and still
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hale and hearty, occupies the old homestead, with some six or seven hundred acres besides. He was married in 1821 to Margaret Wells ; she died Dec. 12, 1882. Ten children were born to them, viz .:
James, born Dec. 17, 1822.
Ebenezer, born Nov. 27, 1824.
Louisa, born in 1826.
Abbott, born in 1828.
Jesse, born Aug. 20, 1830.
William, born, June 18, 1832.
Mary and Betsey, born May 26, 1834.
John H., born Dec. 13, 1837.
Helen S., born July 4, 1840.
Three of these children are dead : Betsey died Feb. 26, 1847 : Abbott died Oct. 27, 1853, and Ebenezer Sept. 21. 1857. Louisa married L. J. Vaughn, and now lives in Ashford. Jesse married Miss Maria Davidson. William married Miss Josephine L. Burgess ; she dying in 1870, in 1874 he was married to Mrs. Amy C. Titus. Mary married John Murdock. John married Miss Helen Fowler, and Helen, Daniel D. Nash.
E. N. Frye is a man of sterling character, and in his younger days he took an active part in all that tended to advance the . prosperity of the new settlement. At the age of sixteen years he began teaching, which he followed more or less until other cares absorbed his attention. He also occupied the office of Supervisor, and Assessor of the town for a term of years.
It is nearly or quite sixty-seven years ago since he began with an axe to let the sun-light fall upon that soil which has ever since been his home. Hopefully toiling on, at first upon the articled claim obtained in boyhood years, until he had touched the meridian and found himself the possessor of many broad acres, but still onward and upward, and now his years are verging upon four-score and ten, and yet each of these many active, useful years have witnessed some improvement in his surroundings.
Fosdick Family.
Stephen Fosdick, the great progenitor of the family, was first known in Charlestown, Conn., in 1635. His name appears on
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church records as one of the first to organize Harvard church. He was one of forty to found New London, was proprietor of Fosdick's Neck and Inlet, and participated in the sale of Bos- ton Commons, with other privileges granted at that age to noted men. History also says he was expelled from the church and fined £20 for reading Ana-Baptist papers ; was afterwards restored to the church by paying the fine.
Solomon Fosdick, a descendant of Stephen, was born in the town of Oyster Bay, Queens county, L. I., April 8, 1776; was married to Anna Thorn, a member of the Society of Friends, at Coeyman's landing ; after that resided at Rockaway, L. I., where three of their children, viz., Samuel, Angeline and Pru- dence, were born. He then removed to Amsterdam, where two children, Alice and Elizabeth, were born. He then removed to Rensselaerville, Albany county, where three chil- dren, Mary T., John S. and Jesse T. were born. Morris was born at Oyster Bay, L. I. In November, 1819, Mr. Fosdick removed with his family to Boston, Erie county, renting and living on a place owned by Aaron Adams, after by purchase, a place on West hill, and in 1822 the place lately owned by Am- brose Torry, adjoining the town line of Boston, in the town of Concord, where he lived until his death, Feb. 11, 1838. His wife. Anna Fosdick, died in Springville, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1858 ; both were buried at Boston, where a suitable monument was erected by their son Morris to their memory.
Of their children, Prudence married Joseph Alger ; she died in Boston in 1848; her children, Rollin Alger, Mrs. Mortimer Adams, Mrs. A. Oatman and Mrs. Miranda Steele, still reside in Boston, where they were born.
Samuel Fosdick died in 1>64, and was buried in Youngstown, N. Y .; his son Hiram resides in Salamanca and is cashier of the Salamanca National bank; his daughter, Mrs. Sarah A. Ells- worth, resides in Buffalo, and his daughter by a second mar- riage, Miss Dora Fosdick, resides with her uncle, John S. Fos- dick, at Westfield, N. Y.
Morris Fosdick died in Springville in 1872.
Angeline married Nicholas Bonsteel and lived and died at Great Valley, N. Y., leaving four children.
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One of them, Dr. A. S. Bonsteel, of Corry, Pa., is well known as a physician and surgeon.
Alice married Stillman Andrews, and lives in Jamestown.
Elizabeth married Camden Lake and lived and died in Springville, N. Y., leaving one daughter, Mrs. Laurette Tabor, who still resides there.
Mary T. married James Getty, and resides in East Ham- burg, N. Y.
John S. Fosdick was a teacher for forty-five years, is now a farmer and resides at Westfield, Chautauqua county, N. Y .; he was at one time Superintendent of Education in Buffalo, and for a number of years was Principal of Westfield academy.
Jesse T. Fosdick, the youngest, now sixty-four years old, resides at Salamanca, N. Y. He has been in the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railway company's employ (formerly known as the Atlantic and Great Western Railway) for twenty- one years, and has been successful as a railroad man. He has acquired the knowledge of controlling a large force of men, is conceded honest and upright. Jesse T. Fosdick, in speaking of his childhood, always brings to mind the fact that Louise Carr (afterwards Louise Alger) taught him his letters, and he has through life cherished a friendly feeling, second only to that of his mother, towards his early teacher. At their last meeting, a few years since, they both showed this attachment. and when Jesse became a lad again, and she almost fancied herself again his teacher, it was with the utmost difficulty that the pent up feelings of half a century were restrained.
Morris Fosdick, Esq.
Morris Fosdick, son of Solomon and Anna (Thorne) Fosdick, was born Dec. 9, 1804, in the town of Oyster Bay, Queens county, N. Y .; learned the trade of shoemaker, tanner and cur- rier of Hatch & Alger, in the town of Boston; afterwards worked as a journeyman for Mr. Hoyt, of Buffalo, and Hall Brothers (father and uncle of Judge Hall), of Wales; later entered into partnership with Griffin Swain, of Otto, Cattarau- gus county ; they carried on the business to which he was edu- cated several years, sold out his in interest the tannery, and became a student at Springville Academy under Professor Par-
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sons, teaching school several Winters of his student life ; entered the law office of Elisha Mack; admitted an attorney in the Supreme Court of New York July 13, 1838 ; commissioned by Gov. William L. Marcy Adjutant of the Two Hundred and Forty- eighth regiment of Infantry Nov. 9, 1838 ; admitted to practice in both the District and Circuit Courts of the United States Oct. II, 1842; appointed Judge-Advocate with the rank of Colonel in the Twenty-sixth Division of New York State Infantry Feb. 28, 1843; admitted counsellor in the Supreme Court of New York July 14, 1843 ; admitted as solicitor and counselor in the Court of Chancery of New York, July 19, 1843; became a law
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partner with Wales Emmons for a time, and continued to prac- tice his profession in Springville up to the time of his death, which occurred Feb. 3, 1872, aged sixty-seven years.
Although a Democrat and living in a town overwhelmingly opposed to him politically, he, on several occasions, was elected to offices of trust and honor. Elected Justice of the Peace, and in 1857, elected Supervisor and served as Chairman of the Board. Served one term as justice of the Sessions.
With peculiarities and eccentricities, which oftentimes proved almost offensive, he, nevertheless, by reason of regard for truth
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and his strict integrity, hardly ever failed in retaining the re- spect and confidence of those with whom he had business relations.
In all official positions he was strictly and tenaciously obser- vant of his own duties, and was equally tenacious in requiring from others a due and proper observance of relations and duties toward himself. His fidelity to official trusts was proverbial, but was not less so than was his faithfulness to private interests, entrusted to his care.
A bachelor through life he was most eminently endowed with the most peculiar characteristics of that honorable fraternity. A good counsellor, an honest man.
Benjamin Frye.
Benjamin Fay was born in Athol, Worcester county, Mass., Sept 14, 1783. He came here in the Fall of 1811, to " see the country," and settled here in 1812. His brother, Josiah, had been here before he came and selected land, and went back to Massachusetts and never returned. Mr. Fay settled on Town- send Hill, on lot 59, township seven, range six, and lived there till the time of his death, when he owned the whole quarter section. When, in his prime, he was an energetic and successful farmer ; he served as a soldier on the Niagara frontier in the war of 1812-'15; he was in several skirmishes and engagements on each side of the river, on one occasion a can- non ball killed his right hand man. On another occasion at Fort Erie, where he and Isaac Knox, of this town, were not far apart, a cannon ball passed between them and whirled them both around ; he was at the burning of Buffalo, and was com- pelled to flee with the others. After the close of the war he held several high offices in the militia, was elected Colonel, but did not serve. He also held several town offices, such as School Inspector, Assessor, Commissioner and Justice of the Peace. In early days he was one of the leading men of the town. June 10, 1819, he was married to Polly Bowler, who was born in Guilford, Vt. Mr. Fay died in this town Sept. 17. 1863, aged eighty years. Mrs. Fay died in this town Jan. 2, 1870, aged seventy-one years. There children were :
Benjamin Albert, born 1820, died in 1822.
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Amos F., born Jan 2, 1822, resides in Indianapolis, Ind. B. A., born Sept. 29, 1823, resides in Springville.
Charles, born April 12, 1826, died Feb. 6, 1863, in this town.
Ward, born July 28, 1829, is in California.
Polly D , born Aug. 3, 1836, died June, 1837.
Nehemiah Frye.
Nehemiah Fay settled on Townsend Hill in 1816, where he lived about twenty-five years, and then removed to Little Val- ley, Cattaraugus county, where he and his wife both died, hav- ing lived to a good old age. Their children were :
Nabby, who married Obadiah Russell, and moved to Little Valley, where they both died.
Fannie married Asahel Field, and lives in Little Valley.
James lives in Cattaraugus county.
Alcander lives in Great Valley, Cattaraugus county.
Solomon Field.
Solomon Field was born in Durfield, Mass., on the Connecti- cut river, and came from there to Madison county, N. Y., where he remained a few years. He took up lot three, town- ship seven, range seven, in 1809, and located there in the Fall of 1810, where he resided until the time of his death. His children were :
Ruth married Royal Twichell, and died several years ago.
Asahel married Fanny Fay, and died in Little Valley, Cat- taraugus county.
William married Mary E. Briggs, and died in this town in 1870.
Huldah married Isbon Treat, and died in Colden.
Porter married in this town and removed East.
James Flemmings.
James Flemmings was born in Massachusetts in 1786, and his wife, Sally Loomis Flemmings, was born there in 1789. They came to this country and settled first in Boston, in 1818, and afterward came to Concord in 1822. Mr. Flemmings was a farmer and carpenter and joiner, and built houses and barns, many of which are still standing. He lived for a while on the
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Genesee road, west of Townsend Hill, and afteward bought a farm on the south part of lot fifty-one, township seven, range six. His house stood near the foot of the hill which was for a long time called Flemmings Hill. The old house still stands. After a while he sold his farm and removed to Springville, where he was engaged in trade for some time, and then removed, to Ashford, Cattaraugus county, where he died Dec. 19, 1866, aged seventy-nine years and eight months ; his wife died March 14, 1854, aged sixty-five years.
Their children were:
Jane, James, Hannah, Sally, Joseph, Parker and Margaret.
Jane married E. T. Briggs ; after his death she married Will- iam Field, who is also dead. She is living in Springville.
James married Nancy Norcott and died in Springville, Sept. 6, 1867, aged fifty-four years and eight months.
Hannah married Samuel Wheeler and died Sept. 24, 1841, aged twenty-five years.
Sally married first, Adoniram Blake; second, Elam Chandler and died Feb. 25, 1880.
Joseph lives in Springville.
Parker married Susan Babbett and died in Ashford in 1873, aged forty-seven.
Margaret married Horace B. Harrington and died in Ellicott- ville in 1861, aged 31 years.
Joseph B. Flemmings.
Mr. Flemmings was born in Concord on Towsend Hill, March II, 1822. He was a son of James Flemmings, one of the early pioneers of the town. His mother's maiden name was Sally Loomis. He attended school at the Springville Academy dur- ing the year 1840. He was married in 1842 to Harriet Bisby. They have one daughter, Mrs. Calvin C. Smith, born Aug. 4, 1844, and one son Ernest, born Feb. 27, 1856. Mr. Flem- mings has resided principally at Springville and Salamanca. His occupation is that of architect and builder, in which he is very skilled and proficient. Many of the finest residences and structures in Cattaraugus county and Springville are of his planning and building. Of those of which he was either the architect or builder or both, may be mentioned the Leland
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House and the residence of J. P. Meyers, in Springville ; the residences of Hon. Commodore Vedder, Ellicottville, and Syd- ney N. Delap, Mansfield, and the large lumber mill of James Fitts at Salamanca.
Abram Fisher.
Abram Fisher came from Vermont to this town (Concord) in 1829, and bought of Peter Tice, brother of Daniel Tice, fifty acres of land on the south part of lot fifty, township seven, range six. About 1836, he moved from this town to Boston, and from there he moved to the West Branch in the town of North Collins, from there he moved to Pennsylvania, where he died in 1860. He was a farmer.
His children were :
Acsah, who died about 1850 in Vermont.
William, the stage driver and violinist, who died in Pennsyl- vania about 1875.
Richmond died in North Collins about 1840.
Sarah Ann died in Buffalo about 1865.
Nelson died in North Collins about 1840. Perry died in North Collins about 1840. Roswell lives in Pennsylvania.
Erasmus lives in Springville. He was born in Concord, the other children were born in Vermont.
Philip Ferrin.
Mr. Ferrin's father, Ebenezer Ferrin, came from Hebron, Grafton county, N. H., to Concord ( Horton Hill), in the Fall of 1815, with his family. The next Spring he located land in Concord, where the Warner place now is, lot fifty-two, range six, township seven, where he lived until his death, March 9, 1852. He was born in Hebron, N. H., Sept. 4, 1777, where he was married Nov. 26, 1801, to Lydia Phelps, who was born March 9, 1782. She died about 1855.
Fourteen children were born to them, all but one living to mature years as follows :
Francis, born May 16, 1803 ; resides in Minnesota.
Samuel, born Nov. 12, 1804; resides in Utah.
Jesse, born May 1, 1806; resides in Allegany county, N. Y.
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Mary, born Aug. 1, 1807 ; resides in lowa.
Alice, born March 18, 1808 ; died about 1859.
Unice, born Aug. 9, 1810: died about 1857.
Harvey, born Aug. 18, 1811 ; died May 10, 1840. Lydia, born July 19, 1813 ; died about 1863.
Philip, born June 29, 1815 : resides in Springville, N. Y.
Nathan, born July 12, 1818 ; resides in Indiana.
Adna P., born July 12, 1820, died about 1858.
Achsa, born Feb. 1. 1822 ; died April 5. 1822.
Lucy, born Feb. 16, 1823 : died March 7, 1849.
Lodica M., born July 27, 1825 ; resides in Allegany county N. Y.
Mr. Philip Ferrin has always been a resident of Concord, and a successful and very industrious farmer. He was married Feb. II. 1841, to Emeline Stanbro.
Ten children have been born to them, viz .:
Charles A., born March 21, 1842 ; married Elizabeth Recd.
Andrew Clark, born Nov. 13, 1843; married, (Ist), Georgie Long, (2d), Josephine Long.
Ann, born Dec. 11, 1845 ; died Jan. 30, 1846.
Ward, born Dec. 21. 1847 ; married, (Ist), Emeline Reed, (2d). Mrs. Amelia Horton.
Alice L., born May 19, 1849 ; died Sept. 28, 1850.
Ella L., born Aug. 28, 1852 ; married Clark Churchill.
Horace Lee, born Aug. 21, 1854 ; married Kate Hurd. Nelson A., born July 23, 1857 ; married Ella Long.
Carrie E., born June 20, 1859 ; died, 1863.
Herbert W., born June 29, 1862 ; married Ida Blackmar.
John Feddick.
John Feddick was born in 1837, in Paris, France, and is a farmer. His wife's maiden name was Margaret Hery, born also in Paris. Came to Buffalo in 1852 : was married in 1858.
His father, Nicholas Feddick, settled in the town of Collins, on a farm and lived there until the time of his death, in 1879. His family consisted of twelve children, six of whom dicd at an early age and a daughter died in 1878; five are now living.
John Feddick says: "My two surviving brothers live in the town of Collins. One of my sisters lives in the town of Eden
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and the other in Sauk county, Wisconsin. I left Collins in 1859, went to Iowa, from Iowa to Missouri, from Missouri to- Kansas, from Kansas to Omaha, Nebraska, thence back to Davenport, lowa. I enlisted in the 2d Iowa Cavalry, Company · E,' Captain Kendrick, attached to Colonel Elliott's Regiment. Continued in the service from 1862 to the close of the war. Was in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Juka, Port Hudson and others of lesser note, including the Siege of Vicksburg. Was discharged at Eastport, Mississippi ; returned to Gowanda, and soon after came and settled in Concord." His children are : George, born Dec. 10, 1859.
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